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CHARLES H. BENNETT, OF CHELTENHAM, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-FOURTH TO ,JAOOB B.BOHREB, OF LANCASTER, PA.

ATTACHMENT FOR BOTTLE-STOPPERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 298,273, dated May 6,1884.

Application filed January 19, 1884. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES H. BENNETT,

.of Oheltenham township, in the county of Montgomery and State ofPennsylvania, have invented a new and valuable Improvement inBottle-Stoppers and Attachments for Stoppers; and I do hereby declarethat the following is a full, clear, and exact description of theconstruction and operation of the same, reference being had to theannexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to theletters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figures 1 and 2 of the drawings are respectively side and frontelevations of myimproved bottle-stopper fastener. Fig. 8 is a plan, andFig. 4 is a detail plan. Fig. 5 is a side view of my saddle, and Fig. 6is a top view.

My invention has relation to bottle-stopper fasteners, and has for itsprincipal object to provide a cheap, simple, and effective fastenerwhich is readily attached to and detached from the bottle, and issusceptible of being easily looked upon and released from the stopper.

My invention accordingly consists of the novel combination andconstruction of parts comprising a bottle-stopper fastener, ashereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, A represents the stopple, which may be of any suitableor desired construction. I have shown it composed of a half-round orcurved cast-metal top, B. having a recess or seat, b, and with alaterallyprojecting lug, b, with elongated opening or eye 6 a rubber orother gasket, 0, and a cork, D. The gasket and cork D are affixed to thetop B in any desired manner.

E represents a saddle having lugs c e, through which passes a key orclamp, F, having a curved or bent top, f. The saddle E is secured to theneck of the bottle by a band or wire, 0', as shown, and the curved end fof key F passes through the eyes b" of the lug b, and is designed toenter the recess 6 in top B, to compress gasket 0 and cause it and thecork D to hermetically seal the bottle. The height of the end f of key Fis suitably adjusted in relation with the top B, so that said end f maybe easily passed to and slipped out of the recess 1) or off of anordinary stopple having no recess, and yet exert the required pressurefor eifecting the sealing of the bottle by means of the adjusting-nuts ff, secured to the end f of said key on opposite sides of one of the lugse e, or the lower lug, e, as indicated in the drawings.

To seal the bottle, the stopper A is passed into the mouth of the formerand the key F turned on its vertical axis, or from right to left, untilits end f enters the recess 1) in top B, or rests on the center of acork or stopple not having a recess. By reversing the lastdescribedmotion, the key F is released from the stopple, and the latter isthereby drawn out of the bottle to unseal it. Said parts then assume theposition indicated in dotted lines 00 00, Fig. 1.

It will be noted that the parts of the fastener are few and extremelysimple, easily and readily secured to the bottle or detached therefrom,and that the sealing and unsealing of the bottle are effectedbyavertical or an axial movement of the key.

It is not necessary that a recessed top should be used on the stopple,nor is it necessary that the stopple should be attached to the key, asshown in the drawings; but the fastener can be used to secure anordinary cork in the bottle, instead of the wires now used to accomplishthat purpose, and it will be much cheaper and more easy to secure a corkby'means of my fastener, and also to release it from the cork.

\Vhat I claim is 1. In a bottle-stopple fastener, the combination of astopple having a lug, a revolving key passing through said lug and bentover the center of the stopple to form a retaining device, a saddlehaving lugs for the key, and means, substantially as described, in thekey for adjusting and holding the latter in place, substantially asdescribed.

2. The combination of stopple A, having top B, with a recess, 12, andlug-opening b the key F, having curved or bent end f and adjustingmechanism, and saddle E,with bearings c e, substantially as shown anddescribed.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my namein the presence of two witnesses.

' CHARLES H. BENNETT. IVitnesses:

ALLEN H. GANGEWER, GEORGE W. LEETZER.

